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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rebecca Thomas

More than 380,000 A&E patients forced to wait 12 hours as NHS accused of hiding true scale of crisis

PA

More than 380,000 patients waited more than 12 hours in A&E last year, new figures show, amid claims ‘misleading’ public data masks the true scale of the problem.

A Royal College of Emergency Medicine report shows 381,991 people across 74 NHS trusts waited half a day or longer from the time they arrived at hospital in 2021.

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